I read all 337 books in Skyrim so you don't have to | Unraveled
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- Should you read every book in Skyrim? And what are the top five books in Skyrim? Brian David Gilbert is once again put in a suit and locked in a room in order to answer those eternal questions in this episode of Unraveled.
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All the different angles make me feel like I’m multiple students attending his weird class
44EllaBonbon44 this comment made me make the single grossest laugh I have ever done. I’m pretty sure i sounded like a donkey on crack. I’m sick and I laughed and coughed at the same time
Ellery Oh my gosh lol. You’ve made my day with your crackhead donkey laugh.
I would LOVE Brian David as my college professor
ARandomFandomFan that sounds like a questionable porno
Where do I enroll?
“what qualifies you to do this?” *ignores creative writing degree from Hopkins*
I think reading all 337 books was probably more effort than getting a degree tbh
@@genuineinterest Well, no.
@@allrad4911 I think he was being sarcastic, if he wasn't though that wouldn't matter because you are right
@@lucus6458 wait, you actually think a degree makes you an authority what is and isn't "good" fiction? It's all subjective. Brian's intelligence and experience means he can give a more nuanced and informed opinion, but it's still an opinion.
@@8Rincewind I don't even know man, someone here is right but it's probably not me
The Lusty Argonian Maid is the Elder Scrolls equivalent to those erotic visual novel games where you start because you wanna see sexy times but then complete the games because your engrossed into the story of people in the game.
The sexiest thing of all is being emotionally open and caring
echo? idk dont spoil it
That is a book that exists in skyrim lol?
It became a work of satire for me because all female Argonians have smokers lung, and reading the maids lines with that kind of voice makes me laugh.
That's Adastra for the furs out there.
@@marcuswestphal4955 yes
My favourite book was the one where the guy has his men around the table for dinner, and knows one of them has betrayed him.
He waits until they have all eaten before telling them all that he knows of the plot and has poisoned only the traitor's food - whilst the antidote is in either a wine vessel or dessert or some such.
The guilty party immediately dives for the antidote and guzzles it down.
Only then, does the man reveal that he wasn't _exactly_ sure which one betrayed him, and so he launched a trap.
Turns out, the food was never poisoned, and the "antidote" was indeed the poison all along.
In one fell swoop the man was able to not only identify his enemy, but deliver his punishment simultaneously.
Absolute legend.
Damn, that's a very good one. Do you remember the name of the book?
A game at dinner@@luxiam9148
@luxiam9148 "a game at dinner." it's also a skillbook for alchemy since it teaches your character about poisoning people, lol
The alternate last supper.
A GAME AT DINNER IS GREAT
He's become the new librarian of the College of Winterhold
I hope he manages to tolerate tht irritating orc ............
New librarian or not, Urag's rules about books still stand
@@rahulverma8774 i like that guy :')
*A S S O R T E D B O O K S*
Neva loved Urag Gro-Shub
No joke, I'd pay real money to see those staged readings of Skyrim drama
Sammmeee
Same
Same
I’d pay money for someone to complete The Lusty Argonian Maid with the consistent erotic tension for the whole 7 Acts.
Same
“I read every book in Skyrim!”
Me: Wow, that’s impressive!
“I printed it out in 5.5 font.”
Me: Wow, this guy is mad!
💯
You must be new here.
There's a reason the series is called "Unraveled". :D
If only Brian had learned that Bethesda printed whole collections of the books so he didn't have to print them.
He loved to print. He just lived for printing.
@@polygon polygon why do you say this like he’s dead. Did pat use gnarly wrestling moves to huck him through a table or something.
@@wanamingo4961 brian left polygon
@@mischiefandmisadventurestu1878 no he died
@@polygon "He loved to print. He still does, but he also used to as well."
Brian *reads all books in skyrim*
*Hermaeus Mora wants to know your location*
This guy have all the forbidden knowledge in skyrim
Lmao
*Hermaeus Mora already knows your location*
😂👏
Oh god. Not him
The cameras be like : 🔼🔽⬅️➡️↙️↘️↪
Cant unsee
I don’t think it would have bothered me too much to begin with, but now this is really distracting lol
They’re following his eyes
No joke, I thought you were going to enter the Konami code.
Damn
The Real Barenziah is like fanfiction, in that it starts out incredibly horny as the main character screws everyone in sight, and then gets way too real and horribly depressing as the author gets bogged down in lore and heavy storytelling.
IM SORRY W H A T
@@jewelv1652 Oh yeah, apparently "all young dunmer are promiscuous" and she has lots of partners when she's young.
And then she gets caught up in numerous political love affairs and becomes the mistress of Tiber Septim himself, most of the people she loves end up dying, she falls out of favor with Talos, and gets tricked into revealing the Staff of Chaos by Jagar Tharn.
At least, that's what I remember from reading it several years ago
@@jewelv1652 yep. Then you meet her granddaughter in Skyrim during the Thieve’s Guild quest line!
@@giggityguy That feels like a fantasy version of Roxana by Daniel Defoe 🤔
(Which is also terrible btw)
@@giggityguy also feels very fanfic-y where she pops out a few kids who are then barely mentioned again
I love that The Book of Fate (which is a blank page) is included in the list of good fiction.
The Book of Fate shows the destined fate of the reader. The player's character is a hero, which in TES lore is someone who is unbounded by fate and free to forge their own destiny.
Thank you for this, kind strangers. I was trying to find "the book of fate" in a collection I own and was almost losing my mind
AND THERE IS ALSO A BOOK CALLED THE PIRATE
@@NigerianCrusaderis that the fith book of beggar, thief, warrior, king?
NOPE ITS STANDALONE@@lavabiscuits
A bit of lore behind that,
Our heroes in every game aren't born under any of the star signs on the standing stones, they are technically born under The Prisoner sign. The Warrior takes away the Prisoner's skills, the Thief takes away their possessions, and the Mage takes away their identity. When The Prisoner is freed (and the character customized) it is their symbolic act of becoming anything they desire and being unbound by the Fate of the Aurbis. There are a lot of pages that explain it better than me, but that's the basics.
brian you _cannot_ and _will not_ stop me from reading all the books in skyrim
Twice
Ya done yet
@@magicmac6184 No, polar died a fifth of the way through. The fiction was so dry it dehydrated them to the point of death
YA DONE YET???
polarbethy YA DONE YET??
"316,000 words"
Fanfic readers: Oh, that's average
Gotta get those numbers up, those are rookie numbers
Same
Me, casually reading a 2 million word fic: IVE BEEN ATTACKED
Homestucks: You sweet summer child, you babe swaddled in the cashmere blanket of ignorance.
@@Silverwind87 I've only heard legends and they scared me.
He mentioned fast traveling by worm and I said out loud "Oh yeah that one!"
oh worm
Out of all the comments, mr. Polygon decided to give this comment the spotlight. Congrats!
SHAI HULUD
Brian, I've got some potentially sad news: Waughin Jarth is probably dead. He's a Breton author who was around during the late third era, which means it's unlikely he'd be alive by the time of Skyrim as he'd be well over 200 years old.
Time for a necromancer to get him back on the writing table
@@pedrojose660Let's hope he'll find a particular disk and not mistakes the names
or he could go the boring route and idk show up as a ghost or something
So he really is like the Tolkien of Skyrim
@@goranpersson7726 Yeah like being dead means nothing in the elder scrolls lol half the important characters we meet are dead
"It's time for the number one book"
Me: "it's the lusty a..."
"It's NOT the lusty argonian maid"
Got me
Timestamp...?
@@yt_krg ..no, you're a timestamp!
@@yt_krg 9:22
I was your 1k like 💪
I cried
I want a mod to add him into the game as an NPC book collector trying to get his hands on some of these books and you can take quests from him to give them to him. It'll help highlight these more interesting books.
And if you give him a particular one he takes a moment to read it then looks up at you completely dead-eyed and
*_R I V E T I N G_*
Thats... just flipping genius... modding community! You have a side quest!
I thought you were gonna say just make his quest to read those books as he said. It'll activate when you find one of them, and give you 300 gold (...pieces) if you flip through every page
So basically we should replace the vanilla NPC who asks you to hunt down books for the mage's guild.
You get extra payment if you take a quiz he gives you on the contents of some of the books
Remember when Unraveled started, and Brian was just like, neurotic, instead of channeling eldritch madness?
No
3:29 is probably my favorite part of the video, the way he says *R I V E T I N G* will always crack me up
It's so powerful I love BDG
Brian, I have bad news for you. The people who want to read Skyrim histories are the same people who want to watch videos about Skyrim books.
In this essay I will
thank you for coming to my ted talk
IS EVERYTHING OKAY AT HOME??
WHERE'S THE ESSAY. But really I would love to have an audio book set with all of these fully voice acted.
You will what?!
Where’s the essay OP?!
brian’s brain is the most organized chaos i’ve ever seen
I read that as Brain's Brian
"Imma do something weird and random. But by gods name, it will be done correctly"
@UCiWIfZSqwh5Q_2snvF1EU-Q ughhh this Boi is sexy affff
Organized and chaos? so Brian is Jyggalag and Sheogorath all in one
I wish to be taught this power
I guess Waughin is doing pretty good for himself.
Sorry bud, shouldna been evil
My favorite was this blind bandits book, and it having absolutely no text at all. Just a blank book. Made me actually laugh out loud
Ahh, I but didn't you notice the braile?
“History is so boring”: the guy who has spent hours overanalysing the history of the sonic the hedgehog production bible.
Writing history thats litterally made up is less boring than reading history
THE WHAT
Edit: when I read this I imagined a version of the bible where the people are replaced by sonic characters
Mr Random look up sonic bible Brian David Gilbert. It’s worth it. Trust me.
That wasn't history, that was GOSPEL!
Didn’t he also read the Geneva Convention
If your erection lasts for more than 7 acts, consult your physician.
Such a LArGe and MAgNiFICent piece!
Oh I snortled!
If you need me call me
HA
1000 likes
Perfect
3:00
This is why Tolkien never intended for the Silmarilian to be published. The dude recognized that 99% of people do not care about real or fictional history.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever read. 99% of people don't care about real history? Dude, 99% of your family and friends don't care about you. History rules.
@@sloppyphart7879 | Yeah, sure, we all find PARTS of history interesting, but that's because most of us only know the interesting parts. The vast majority of history absolutely does not rule. Most of it resembles what BDG described.
Ive tried to read that book like 5 times and i cant get too far without zoning out and getting confused and bored
?? Personally I care a lot about those elves and their bad decisions.
I like it because it's nice for people who do like it. Just like real life, you dont have to read them, unless you're in school
in case you need context for how big *316k words* is, the longest Harry Potter book (Order of the Phoenix) is 257k words. A Game Of Thrones (the 1st book in the series) is 298k. The entire 7 book series of the Chronicles of Narnia is 345k. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is 481k. War and Peace is 561k.
It is longer than any single book in the Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, or Chronicles of Narnia series.
it's a LOT
avg adult reading speed (according to I Googled It Once And This Is What It Said) is 200-250 words per minute. Let's say Brian can read 250 wpm. 316,000 divided by 250 is 1,264 minutes, or *21 hours and 4 minutes* When he said "multiple 8-hour days" that means he read skyrim for *3 straight days* (3x8 is 24, let's say the excess ≈3 hours is lunch/bathroom breaks)
I know this came out like 3 years ago but I am still in awe. I consider myself an avid reader but DUDE
@E. Strnad yeah especially if you consider that this is well... kind of his job
I mean i finished reading order of the phoenix in like two days, and i woke at like 6 pm on one of those days cause i was sick.
You know lord of the rings is one book
@@joshwhite5730 yeah while it is technically all one book it's most well-known today as a trilogy, so i just wanted to be clear
Dude this is just my Tuesday I read 300k words like way to much
Idiots: Fifty Shades Of Grey
Me, an intellectual: The Lusty Argonian Maid
Sexy lizard > actual people
The sultry argonian bard
I mean both have the same level of foreplay.
@@Snakekitty94 so just a bard.
Argonian or Draconian?
3:30 So, in summary: Four guys went to a place, had a conversation, and then went home.
rIVETING
And they became buddies :-))))
@GiantGoblin oh my god, they were roommates...
The true friends was the conversation we had along the way.
That's just a basic nightout
my favorite thing about the Lusty Argoinian maid is that it's basicly a neon sign that says "The owner of this book is DTF"
Nobody exude this kind of "70's weird young teacher at a university so on the left that the C.I.A is frowning" energy, like our dear BDG.
I fucking love it !
It should be the FBI not the CIA
Reminder that MLK was a rape-enabler, adulterer, and plagiarist.
@@psyrus728
Even though the CIA is technically barred from spying on domestic citizens, they have repeatedly done so both purposefully and as a by product of intelligence sharing between the intelligence agencies. Operation Chaos ran through the late 60s, early 70s, and was a domestic spying program meant to disrupt the peace movement under the guise of "preventing foreign influence in domestic politics"
@@psyrus728
But yeah generally OP would be more correct if they'd said FBI
@@boonsaplenty3924Idk I think putting FBI would have been better than CIA
Boy he is using those 3 cameras
Yes got a little too much at the end
Ya I had to look away because it just became too much...
They need to put this man in Elder Scrolls 6 as a book keeper or something to honor his work
Christofunk Well Shirley Curry is already gonna be in there, so why not?
Make Brian as Shirley’s assistant, maybe?
It would be amazing if he was a bard screaming about stories
The Keeper of the Picture
Like shitesda will care enough
I would legitimately pay for a stage play version of The Lusty Argonian Maid with BDG as the lead actor.
💀
BDG: ITS OVER 312,000 WORDS!!
*fan fic writers/ readers laughing maniacally in the distance *
Ew.
Ew.
C0DA
Ew.
My exact thoughts.
You’re completely wrong. The best book in Skyrim is the one where a little girl has a meeting with some dragons and asks them “how do you speak when your jaws and lips are clearly not designed to create human speech?“ And the dragons respond “the same way our bat like wings carry us when we’re obviously too heavy to fly”
m a g i c k , b a b y
according to all known laws of aviation- [I AM SHOT]
Whats this book called?
@i want to commit literal genocide. sadly I don't remember, it's been nearly a decade since I read it and I couldn't find it by googling it
What about a hot lizard
*walks into Starbucks with acoustic guitar* "Ooooooh there once was a hero named Ragnar the Red-"
this needs to happen
i wonder if, someday, i'll understand the joke here..
probably not :)
I believe in you Gallag.
IKRR
@@hel2727 th-cam.com/video/0dj7EVJ_mtA/w-d-xo.html
i believe this song and its awkward presentation has, maybe ironically, become the "play wonderwall" of video game circles
thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
**clap* *clap* *clap**
Some very, *very* good ones he didn't put in his 'good fiction' category: The Rear Guard, The Wraith's Wedding Dowry, The Locked Room, and Withershins. Of his 'good fiction' category, several particularly good ones are The Armorer's Challenge, Chance's Folly, A Game at Dinner, and Breathing Water. Morrowind has even more, but I'm very glad that these at least made it all the way into Skyrim.
Rear Guard was probably my favourite ngl
Wait he really didn't put Withershins in good fiction. I thought this guy's taste couldn't get worse lol
"Don't read them!"
Me: _That sign won't stop me because I cant read_
wait...
"They are valid.
And they're wrong.
And they always seem to find my comment sections."
I was scrolling through the comments while the video played. Somehow the second I got to this comment, this line played. I am a sorcerer.
323 likes and 1 comment
Been trying to get TH-cam's "end" URL parameter to work for like 10 minutes so I could send just that to a friend...
RegiRuler 5:23 AM you get your 1,400 like 10 months later you swine!
Can we have BDG and the rest of the Polygon staff perform the whole Lusty Argonian Maid play?
Chris Brinkley I need this to happen
PLEASE
May Bracy you doubt their theatrical strength?
@@voiceofsaph3225 It is my belief that they are the ultimate thespians.
Chris Brinkley the maid should be a random lizard they find somewhere
My personal favorite book in Skyrim is Racial Phylogeny, because, "... it is by no means clear whether the Argonians should be classified with dreugh, men, mer, or (in this author's opinion), certain tree-dwelling lizards in Black Marsh." I'm not quite sure why, but that line gets me every time.
its just so funny how casually racist like half the books in these games are to every race without exception
@@plugshirt1762 This a problem pervasive in the high fantasy genre.
Thief was like the first book i found and omg let me tell you i was enthralled by the story, and excited to find the other three
coming back to this after the halo video is like looking at firelord ozai's baby pictures
Amen to that
Coming to this after Halo is somewhat disappointing. In most videos he has a dry, sarcastic, sometimes self-deprecating, always funny theme running under the sated goal. In this one, he just seems to be doing exactly what he stated he was going to do.
JiffyJames85 it’s impressive to see how much his content has evolved
i appreciate this comment 10/10 reference
I’m doing the same AND YOU ARE RIGHT
he really embodied griffin mcelroy when he exclaimed "hEY TODD"
I really don't want to like this comment because it's at 337 and that's perfect so I'll just leave it alone :)
I had the exact same thought!
2:08 if anyone’s wondering
i legitimately can't tell if that's him or a clip of griffin audio
TODD? DAMN.
NOTE: Something that Brian didn't mention was that _The Argonian Account_ is actually the sequel series to _A Dance In Fire,_ both of which feature Decumus Scotti. If you decide to read TAA, you should consider reading ADIF first (although ADIF is 7 books while TAA is only 4, and according to Brian TAA is better, so I'm not gonna break down your door if you decide to just read TAA straight away).
you know a video is legendary when your brain plays it in your head out of nowhere even after 4 years
Went through the same motion. This Brian Gilbert guy is a TH-cam legend for me.
True
I was getting a bus and as I climbed its stairs, I heard a bass boosted RIVETING in my head and paused for like one second, delaying the rest of the passangers who began to scream at me.
Thanks Brian and Polygon
🎶SKYRIM BOOK REPOOORT🎶
*I read All 337 books in Skyrim*
Weird flex but ok
Gay
Didn't expect that reaction but that's ok
I commented just bcoz
perfect meme fit
So "weird flex but okay" is getting kinda famous
Weird flex but okay
"I read everything, I am the keeper of the picture" This man needs his own NPC in the Arcanaeum with a bunch of lines from this video. Modders I'm looking at you
I want Urag to just randomly shout "SKYYRIM BOOK REPOOOOORRT!"
OH, GOD. YES, PLEASE!
He could give you a quest where you have to bring him a copy of all of Jarth's books.
Low key want a small quest line where you can hear this entire rant.
Nah he'd probably be wandering through Apocrypha at this point
Took a break from reading an academic book on history to watch this, spat my drink all over the desk when he said 'nobody has ever enjoyed writing or reading an academic paper'
Congrats on playing (a) Simon Petrikov in Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake.
Here here 🥂
316k words? That's the size of a good fanfic.
Good fiction
Goooood fiction
on this watch I was definitely like, hold on a sec, Embers by Vathara is 700,000+ words, 300,000 is sizable but it’s not wild
Everyone, reply with the biggest fanfic you've ever read! Mine is 789,589 words long (according to the AO3 word counter).
@@thewolfofthestars1847 Around 1.3 million words was probably the largest one I've read in its entirety.
Necromantic romance? So like zom-rom-com
I like your style
Marry me
That's just Santa Clarita Diet.
Shaun of the Dead?
zom?
I will never forget the book about the thief girl who worked too slowly & her vampire-related revenge on her teacher. It was brilliant. I kind of forgot what I was doing in-game after the book ended honestly... The book about Sheogorath's background is pretty cool too
The thing is that a lot of the literary analysis of historical, mythological, and even “eh” texts are important to the lore. “Alduin is Reel,” which was in your Eh section, shows the concept of mirrors, how different cultures *literally* shape gods, something confirmed by multiple other books like the Monomyth or even out of game lore like Shor, Son of Shor. Also the sermons of Vivec are a master class in metaphorical analysis.
He’s not exaggerating about The Chronicles of Nchuleft. I read the whole thing. It’s all like that.
You poor, poor soul. WHY
Can you tell me more about general Rkungthunch? Was he a dwemer by any chance?
@@Ahmed-vk8pv Just going by the name; I would think so.
I carry that book around as a grim reminder
Ahmed He was a dumb bitch and the only information I retained from the book was that A) I hated reading it and B) No he wasn’t a dwemer they were ruins when he got there the dwemer were gone
i love how when he says "what gives you the right to decide whats good writing" he says he read all the skyrim books and not HE HAS A CREATIVE WRITING DEGREE!
With both he would have such a power to say what is good fiction
If you need a degree in creative writing...
@@larslowther1495 Exactly. How many of the great modern authors had degrees in creative writing? You know, the ones who grew up/went to college when creative writing degrees were already popular? I can't think of one.
qwerp poiuytre creative writing degrees don’t teach you how to decide what’s good.
@@finchhawthorne1302 Reading all 337 books does though, ya dingus.
rewatching this video again and remembered that directly because of this video recomendation i read Beggar, Thief, Warrior, and King as my reading book in english last year. i copied the entire series into my phones notes app and really enjoyed reading it. i even took notes and wrote summaries during the last two minutes of our class reading time so that i could better remember and understand the story as i read it. it was such a different style from everything else i read that year and reminded me how much i enjoy reading and analyizing stories, aand encouraged me to actively find media that i enjoyed rather then just pick a random book from my shelf when i was told i need a reading book for my english class.
I remember playing either Skyrim or Oblivion and I found a book called A Dance in Fire. The book was written by Waughin Jarth, surprise surprise, and it was about Decumis Scotti again and his adventures in Valenwood. I always wanted to know more about Valenwood as it seems the most interesting province but to my knowledge no games have taken place there. The book was such a deep dive into what Valenwood and the wood elves were like through the eyes of a "civilized" imperial. I made it my personal mission to find every volume of the books and read them and I did. Finding a volume of that book was worth more to me than any other loot in the game.
This video is basically Hermaeus Mora having a mental breakdown while speaking to the dragonborn about all the knowledge he has
except Hermaeus Mora is less sexy than David Brian Gilbert
hmm... tentacles...
HAY! This comment section is kink shame free. If you wanna bang Hermaeus Mora (in tentacle form) go and follow your deams!
Not to me
He's actually secretly Hermaeus mora's new champion and got that title after doing this
Also
"DRAGONBORN!" "Aw, crap, he's mad at me." "I just read every single book in tamriel!" "I'm regretting becoming your champion." "HAVE YOU HEARD OF WAUGIN JARTH?!"
this man has now caused me to unironically say "rIVETING" in everyday conversation and i dont know whether to curse or thank him
Ellie Peltz unironically?
_ Correct, as in they aren’t doing it purposefully to reference him as a joke, but they do it without thinking, genuinely it’s become a real reaction they have. I’ve had it happen with a few comedians, it’s weird but fun
Neph Drummond yeah, but the way that he used it was ironically, so if they just used it like he used it instead of as a reference to him using it it is still ironically.
_ It may or may not technically correct, but that’s what they meant and how it’s used.
_ He may have used it ironically but that doesn’t at all mean that OP uses it ironically. That’s not really how picking up other’s lingo works. You start to subconsciously use it, whether ironically or unironically, and then it just seeps into your natural dialogue.
"Beggar, Thief, Warrior, King" are all amazing, but I also personally recommend:
The Armourer's Challenge
Vernaccous and Bourlor
The Mystery of Talara is the best book in my opinion. Its a good story, has mystery and captivation, follows a medieval storytelling structure that is always good, and has a serious, serious twist at the last sentence.
“beggar, thief, warrior, king” is my favorite song by the oh hellos
This!
I love you
There will come a beggar who asks you for some change,
He needs to get out of this place, oh ley oh lie oh lord.
I understood that reference
You win at life
"There's no way you can maintain that kind of erotic tension for seven acts" *cries in 400k words slow-burn enemies-to-friends-to-lovers fanfic*
I feel that.
Lol you’re actually right about this.
No lie, I wanna read that.
YES. THIS.
@아니네 But its a vkoooook
this is my comfort unraveled episode. i've memorized the entire video and included key phrases into my daily vocabulary.
Every now and then I watch this video just to hear Brian sing "skyrim book report!"
Fun tip for you Skyrim lore nerds: there is a website called The Imperial Library that has every single piece of written media from every single game.
Ty
Thanks, should make actually reading the chronological books easier then
UESP.net also has that, along with detailed information on literally everything in the games. Best elder scrolls resource by far, better than wikia stuff.
Oh dear god...
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! T H A N K Y O U!!
I don't know who this strange well dressed nerd is, but I am in love with him.
I just came down here to the comments section to say, "so it's not just me, right? Everyone's in love with him?"
@@gamingbitchface6823 He's soooooo dreamy...
@Anthony White The tie.
if u think his dreamy then im angel from heaven ... :D :)) jk
@@shahin1339 wtf
I wish there was a PDF of his list of books. I could really consider scouring Skyrim for all 337* books to put in my homestead library
I really liked the book 'Immortal Blood', it was a very fun read- and gives some interesting lore to different vampires
Immortal blood is my favorite book in the game. It's actually so friggin cool and how it was set up in the end had my mind blown.
I give two shits about a king who lost a war seven hundred years ago
Yeet
Everyone does, they just don't know it. August, Saturday, etc.
I give three tbh
@@eoincronin6146 I give three hundred shites!
slow down there ^
Random Guy: "Oh, so you're a Skyrim fan? Name every book in it."
Brian David Gilbert: "I'll do you one better."
Ok so I have come to the conclusion that Brian is a simp for lizards since the lusty argonian maid is short and only has innuendos
Ah, perfect, 337 likes
@@jvpro2076 scalie
@@VincentGonzalezVeg if this word is gonna mean the reptile version of furries then I don't wanna be credited in its creation
@@jvpro2076 dont worry, it does mean that but, you werent the first its been like this since 2020
I don't think I can explain how desperately attracted to Brian David Gilbert I am. Not because I'm at a loss for words, but because I'm too embarrassed about how attractive a man doing an obsessive book report about books in a video game is to me
I liked the Alteration book with the story about the guy who tried to learn water breathing so he could loot a shipwreck
Bethesda pulls this stuff all the time. When making Oblivion they gave Sir Patrick Stewart and ENTIRE BINDER about the character he voices. A character that lives for a solid 5 minutes.
But if I recall it, he still loved readin it and getting into the character, even though it was just 5 minutes. But I can't find any information about this binder even.
@@Liggliluff Oblivion behind the scenes... There was a bonus disc that came with the Oblivion Special Edition.
I dream to be that extra one day
@Ben Affleck Is An Ok Actor The thing is, you really don't _need_ a binder's worth of details to educate someone on the importance of Uriel Septim. Going that far to ensure a VA has an accurate grasp on a character with, like, eight lines in the game he's in is very extra.
Brian gives off a very specific "let's do the fork in the garbage disposal" energy
"I am going to throw myself into the sea"
"OH MY GOD GUYS KIKI'S DEAD!! SHE YESS-ED TO DEATH! WE GOTTA YES HARD ENOUGH TO REVIVE HER!"
I would give you a like but you're at 666 already
why is this??? accurate??
I hate how accurate that is
Brian is the fork and the books are the garbage disposal
My favorite Skyrim book is The Locked Room. It's actually a lockpicking skill book in the form of a short story, and I really liked it!
I always kept an entire library of books in my houses in Skyrim so I could read them some day. I never did, so this is extremely appreciated
The first Skyrim book I legitimately decided to read was Alduin is Real. I was immediately captured by the horrible lack of grammar.
Oh man that one was so funny
Was it written that way on purpose
Jimbo yes because it is a uneducated nord who wrote it but he was correct 100% which is very ironic
And he ent Akatosh
You got to love that irony
"Tolkien did the world a disservice by convincing fantasy writer's that they need to chronicle every single second"
As a fantasy writer... THANK YOU.
Yeah, A. It was his life's work, that's not something you can just pull out of your ass in a week, and 2. That's how you only publish like 5 books in your life.
I've been working on a universe for almost 9 months now (longer than some people work on their children) and basic backstory; monarchy was overthrown cause the king burnt his 6yo son alive, all the records for the rulers before then were destroyed, only folk tales and records in other places survived. So now, if I want to chuck in some cool ancient hero I can, and just have that be fine, and if I want to leave 7000 years of a blank slate; I can.
Records got destroyed all the time throughout history. If it wasn't something undeniable and important enough to be documented, then it's unlikely that it'll be recorded, and if it is, it's even more unlikely that everyone will have the same version. Make it inconsistent. Make things be forgotten. Whether you know the truth in your head or not; preach to faulty record keeping. Get wild. Have fun with it.
Just to add on your comment from a different perspective. Think of it this way: Imagine that you knew you will continue to live on for an absurd amount of years... 400 000 years let's say! Would you keep your phone as a memento to this era? Keep it and make sure it survives another 1000 years so that at one point you can sell it as a historical artifact, or preach to your great great grea x100 grandchildren about the age that to them would be equal to a stone age culture for us, or even better, it would be magic to them if there was a big cataclysm or sth? No, you wouldn't! It's an everyday object that serves it's purpose. Heck, you wouldn't even remember most "epic moments of history" in a lifespan of 400 000 years.
@@rizahawkeyepierce1380 especially considering that tolkien was a linguist and not a writer by trade, meaning he spent a lot of time in screaming matches with everyone who edited his books, because he was making up words and language structures as he wrote and had to convince every publisher that they were legitimate and intentional.
he also apparently stated that he wrote the books in such a way as to make a movie based on them impossible, but that might be apocryphal. so the lord of the rings is obtuse on purpose.
@@Gejmi the movie "The man from the Earth" tells about that very topic
I put 900 hours into skyrim during first year of pandemic, I think it kept me sane. As someone who had a meticulously maintained library in my gaff, consisting of my favourite books, I agree with your top pick 🤘😹 I never clocked the backwards names 🤦🏻♀️😹
8:08 you can encounter Waughin Jarth in some of the previous games of the franchise. Games that happen more than 200 years before Skyrim. And Waughin was a human, so...
*plays skyrim*
*opens the lusty argonian maid*
*one handed skill increased to 100*
Lmao
There's actually a mod that gives you a One-Handed skillup upon acquiring a copy of TLAM...
Huh my 2 handed skill increased altho my character is argonion 😉😉
@@tomfisher6258 would be more realistic if it was for Orcs
This comment is amazing
My friends, The Lusty Argonian Maid is both academic AND instructional.
It taught me how to polish spears. But for sone reason I have yet to find spears on my travels.
serious li Use mods and you can download Spears and other “spears “.
Before you bake bread you must let it rise
I used to use the picture you used for the longest time. I called myself dady smuirf
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Love this video and I haven't even started... My return to Skyrim playthrough in 2020 included a search for every unique book so I could place them in bookcases in my home. I thought it was so cool how they had so many unique books that people really put effort into writing. It was always exciting finding a new one
What a funny guy, I hope his employer gives him health insurance
3:29 at the end of all that the way he just says “R I V E T I N G” it kills me
I quote it all the time now.
same! it is so hilarious. i dunno why lmao
Same
3:58 for the “R I V E T I N G”
I literally decided to rewatch this video just for the "R I V E T I N G" lmao
Polygon did such a great job hiring Brian
Hard agree. I just wish we still had Week in Review or some other musical outlet for this good good boy.
Have you seen his cover letter? How could they not!
Still amazed that this is likely the video that made BDG a Bethesda voice actor.
If he doesn't voice like a librarian in ES6 I'm going to be so upset
I love that annad plays absolutely every time I get to that one strong inhale after Brian takes a drink
It's been over a year and I still think about "RIVETING" and "HOW DARE YOU JETTISON MY GIFT?!"
As a Brian, I concede that BDG is the best Brian.
Brian Cuellar that was legendary
And you'd be second best. :D
You're a close second in my book buddy :)
what about brian cranston
“History is BOORRRINGGGG” As a history major, I feel that.
Imagine Sheo's voice (aka Wes Johnson) saying that, friend.
SOME history is boring. Migration and war history is never boring. History of the common bowl and spoon would be boring. Things like Norse history, the Mongols, or the Great Plague isn't. I can spend hours just reading about or listening to knowledgeable people talk about ancient weapons and armor and their history.
Wayne Purcell some migration and war history is very boring. A lot of the wars that were started over the dumbest things and resulted in no gain whatsoever can get boring after the 100th time.
@@Aplesedjr Sometimes I find the stupid and pointless history to be fun because the stupidity and pointlessness is amusing.
Michael Henry there’s a level just above that though. The point where something was really pointless or stupid but not pointless or stupid enough to be amusing. It’s like the movies that are so bad they’re funny, but there’s also just bad movies.
0:15 Hey, the barbs are an important detail. Can’t forget about the barbs.
Love your stuff. I wanted a better way to organize my in-game library...thanks for the format!
I'm reading them all. _Just to jettison your gift._
I like how Polygon just hearted "Physical Mainfestaion of Cancer"
Do IT!
...Cancer is generally a... physical thing.
What I like most about this comment is that I don't know if you're telling the truth or not
I will read because it will improve my english
5.5 font? what is this, a book for ants?
r/thingsforants
r/thisIsTH-camNotReddit
r/oopsIMeantToTagZeroProductionsAlsoSorryForBeingRudeMaybeIShouldHaveUsedSlashS
3 times bigger than this !!!!
There's a sub for people who link subreddits outside of Reddit. I'm not gonna link it, because that would be counter-intuitive
Now I kind of want to read them
The storyline, presentation and vibes are flawless, my guy deserves an award. I’m following you from now on🎉🎉🎉